Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 5:14:47 GMT
Last week, Google announced that it would make some changes to the "Index Coverage" report in Search Console, through a post on its official blog and a tweet on its Twitter account. So what are these changes and, more importantly, why do they concern us? What is Index Coverage Report? First of all, I would like to touch on this briefly, the Index Coverage report is a mini report that we can access via Search Console and check the index status of our pages. In this report, we can access data such as how many of our pages have problems, how many of our pages are in the index, and how many of them we deliberately excluded so that they would not be included in the index. More precisely, we could access it.
What's New in the Index Coverage Report? You can see some of the data that Greece Phone Number Search Console previously shared in the index coverage report in the image below. First of all, do not panic, this data is still available. On the contrary, this time Google made an improvement that would make us happy and announced that it would start reporting some superficial data in this report in more detail. So what are these innovations? First of all, Google announced that it will now give a more detailed report titled “crawl anomaly”. This is really important for us because as soon as we see this error; Scanning problem? Which one? We were rolling up our sleeves to do more detailed research with a question like this.
We will no longer need to do this because Google will report to us in more detail which crawling problem it encountered in the relevant URL. We will save time and the risk of missing any problems on pages with more than one problem will decrease. The "Submitted but blocked" error we received before will now turn into a "blocked but indexed" warning. In other words, if we have URLs that managed to enter the index even if we blocked them from robots.txt, we will now display them under the “blocked but indexed” warning. With this new update, a completely new report, "Indexed without content" warning, comes into our lives. This error, which we can translate as “indexed without content”, means this; Google came to your page and indexed it, but there is no content on this page.
What's New in the Index Coverage Report? You can see some of the data that Greece Phone Number Search Console previously shared in the index coverage report in the image below. First of all, do not panic, this data is still available. On the contrary, this time Google made an improvement that would make us happy and announced that it would start reporting some superficial data in this report in more detail. So what are these innovations? First of all, Google announced that it will now give a more detailed report titled “crawl anomaly”. This is really important for us because as soon as we see this error; Scanning problem? Which one? We were rolling up our sleeves to do more detailed research with a question like this.
We will no longer need to do this because Google will report to us in more detail which crawling problem it encountered in the relevant URL. We will save time and the risk of missing any problems on pages with more than one problem will decrease. The "Submitted but blocked" error we received before will now turn into a "blocked but indexed" warning. In other words, if we have URLs that managed to enter the index even if we blocked them from robots.txt, we will now display them under the “blocked but indexed” warning. With this new update, a completely new report, "Indexed without content" warning, comes into our lives. This error, which we can translate as “indexed without content”, means this; Google came to your page and indexed it, but there is no content on this page.